dorf fortress

To me this reads like a tragedy. Not, like, a deeply moving one - the dude IS getting paid by strangers to live in his own filth and compulsively code his dream/nightmare/white whale game more or less indefinitely - but a tragedy nonetheless.

Here is a socially maladapted kid, who grew up in an environment that didn't support the development of his social skills, who's now a shut-in that does nothing but drink soda, code, and make crayon drawings. Who makes devastatingly saddening comments about things like "the novelty of community."